The Wired Earth

Just a little fun with demographics: here´s the Earth in Celestia - for once seen from cyberspace...

Above: different ways of seeing Earth´s population with Celestia

The Wired Earth is a diversion from regular Celestia modelling; instead of exploring stars, galaxies, worlds, geography or fiction, this Add-On depicts us. It combines data on where and how often Google searches originate with a bumpmap showing population density (the deeper the shadow, the more people: the brighter the light, the more googling).

For ease-of-use, the Add-On comes with a simple CELscript that will let you auto-repeat this spesific day a great number of times while allowing free navigation around the globe.

Four modes of simulation:

24 hours of dynamic googling with bumpmapped (shadows) population density